Applications Development Technology Lead, Citi

Citi

Location:
Canada, Mississauga

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

103830.00 - 176570.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

The Fixed Income Connectivity team globally supports connectivity and routing solutions to both direct to clients over FIX API and ECN platforms. We're seeking to hire an experienced lead to join the connectivity team in creating a best in class, next generation product for our connectivity needs. The role will involve contribution to the global build-out, as well as maintaining a strong partnership with both internal and external stakeholders. The role will be responsible to lead other engineers in NAM time zone along with leading Connectivity projects. This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to transform the connectivity landscape at Citi. It will involve working directly with internal and external partners to solve both business and technology problems with a direct measurable impact on the business.

Job Responsibility:

Lead other engineers & projects in NAM time zone
Understanding of good design principles and ability to adhere to complex design
Development of common, reusable components and services utilizing Citi's best practices
Responsible for creating high performance, low latency applications leveraging existing Citi frameworks
Working with other core E-Trading teams to manage and support the application
Ensuring strong reliability, scalability and performance of the core Blackbird components
Drive architecture and execute on our technical strategy
Partner with technology to continue to evolve Blackbird architecture roadmap beyond near term objectives
Coordinate development with both internal technology teams and business/quants
Drive engineering standards and continue to strive for best in class

Requirements:

Strong academic record, ideally with a Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Science, engineering or related technical or quantitative discipline
Demonstrable success in designing and delivering complex applications
Extensive hand-on coding expertise in Core Java
Strong Software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills
Strong focus on system performance tuning and experience with low latency Java programming
Solid understanding of service architecture and high performance, low latency, and multithreading techniques
Experience architecting and designing high performance server side components
At least 5+ years of experience using Java to develop service oriented applications
Prior experience in building e-trading systems is highly desirable
Knowledge of any financial products like Interest Rates, Spread Products or Futures (e.g. bonds, interest rate swaps, repos) is highly desirable
Technical skills include Java, Spring, FIX, TDD, BDD, KDB and UNIX Scripting
Prior experience in leading regional/global team and projects
Strong verbal and written communication skills
ability to face off to business users
Self-motivated individual and with determination to achieve goals
Willingness to learn, both technically and professionally
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Good team working skills and ability to work in a distributed global team environment
Ability to work on a fast-pace environment
Flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe

Nice to have:

Prior experience in building e-trading systems
Knowledge of any financial products like Interest Rates, Spread Products or Futures (e.g. bonds, interest rate swaps, repos)
Master's degree preferred

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
October 08, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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